• Not all data minors have an individual’s best interest of private information and can use this information against someone.

• Miners are selling data to companies looking to hire applicants, and this information is used against the job applicants (Clemmitt, 2013, pg. 90).

• Publicly accessing the informal online social network of an organization can be used to expose private and sometimes sensitive data regarding the target organization and its employees (Fire, Puzis, 2016, pg. 576).

• If information is posted on social media and is intentionally only shared to a limited amount of people, then data mining is going against what the individual allowed on their social networking site.

• "A George Washington University professor of law argues that increased sharing of private information via social media requires us to develop new norms for what kinds of behavior we’ll hold people accountable for" (Clemmitt, 2010, pg. 770).

• In astudy of 65 people, 76% of these people thought that it was not okay that social media sites gather and share data with third parties to enable advertisements (Kennedy, Elgesem, Miguel, 2017, pg. 276).

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Kennedy, H., Elgesem, D., & Miguel, C. (2017). On fairness: User perspectives on social media data mining. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 23(3), 270-288. Retrieved from proquest.